St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04
PIE is AFFECTIONATE.
The Crusts Seem to Be Stuck on
Each Other.

Each Other.
Special Letter to the Globe.
will relate what had to contend
with for one month at Como avenue
boarding house. | called one afternoon
at little brown house ON the avenue.
After making my business known L was
asked into the parlor by lady who
presented anything but neat appear
ance, who afterwards proved to be my
landlady. | mentioned the fact that it
would not be convenient for me to
make any payments before pay day.
She, trusting l would not betray her
confidence, was admitted as boarder.
/ was not fayorably impressed by any
means with the lay out. But, as the say
ing goes among the boys, was not fly
ing very high and taking into cOnsidera-
ton the Stand-Off and my strong consti-
tuition. made up my mind to
make the best of it. The landlady is
young widow of twenty-Six. [ after
wards heard through 81" to whom she
revealed all secrets. She is also blessed
with promising young son, William by
name, who has powerful lungs, and he
came by his temper honestly. His
Squallfng can only be stopped at meal
hours by the good mother taking him
under one arm as she administers to the
wants of the hungry boarders with the
other to the best advantage. 1t was an
every day occurrence for William to get
his dirty little bare feet into some one
of our plates, while the mother was sup
plying the boarders with some of our
homemade, heavyweight light biscuits.
The screens are SO arranged that the
flies have no trouble in getting in, but
could not get out if they tried. In fact
it is good model for a fly
trap. Now my room would pass,
but the bugs were never known
to. They always took a hand. In a
short time she found her boarders re-
duced in numbers from seven to three.
and in weight all the way from ten to
twenty-five pounds. Some of them had
been there five weeks. l put off saying
anything about our victualS as long as
possible. because we had so little to eat.
For breakfast, a small piece of beef
black as tar and strong enough to float
an egg, and cold fried potatoes. For
dinner, corned beef and cabbage, some
of the same coffee from breakfast, and
boiled potatoes. The potatoes were all
right. AffectiOnate pie is very good
name for the pastry. The crustS were
invariably stuck on each other
And for supper we had, in
addition to what was left from dinner,
blueberries or strawberry shortcake.
/ am exceedingly fond of the latter,
but could not go Mrs. ''F'S'' cakes.
They were too 'sfy' entirely. At last
payday came to my rescue. L was not
long getting new boarding house. My
landlady, who is a good woman and
takes great interest in her boarders,
noticed 1 had wonderful appetite and
she asked where l had been boarding.
After telling her the plain facts in the
case, she recommended watermellons
for a few days. After thinking all
danger had passed, was allowed full
rati0ns. At present have boarding
house that is considered above the
average and am happy. At last accounts
of Mrs. IF" she had one boarder, who
was only too glad when Saturday night
came around so he could give her credit
with $3.50 ON furniture bill which he
was boarding out. My sympathy is with
him. As he is an elderly gentleman [
consider his case doubtful. TJ. w.
st. Paul, Aug %.